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Callum Wilkinson walks to gold at World U20 Championships
- Updated: July 23, 2016
Callum Wilkinson took Britain’s first medal of the IAAF World U20 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, on Saturday morning, crossing the line in the 10,000m race walk in a UK junior record of 40:41.62.
Beating silver medallist Jonathan Amores of Ecuador by less than two seconds, he clocked the fastest junior time of 2016. Behind Amores’ 40:43.33, Turkey’s Salih Korkmaz took bronze with 40:45.53.
Wilkinson was more than 56 seconds quicker than the national junior mark which left him seventh at last year’s European Junior Championships.
He led most of the way en route to going to second on the UK senior all-time list, behind Ian McCombie’s 40:06.65.
Korkmaz had led during the …
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